Cesare Battisti

Cesare Battisti (18 December 1954-) was a leader of the Armed Proletarians for Communism militant group during the "Years of Lead" in Italy.

Biography
Cesare Battisti was born in Cisterna di Latina, Italy in 1954, and he engaged in petty crimes before moving to Milan in 1976 and joining the Armed Proletarians for Communism. In 1979, Battisti was sentenced to twelve years in prison for his involvement in four murders and several robberies, but he escaped from Frosinone prison in 1981 and fled to France and then to Mexico. He founded a literary review in Mexico and a book festival in Nicaragua, and he returned to France in 1990 due to France's policy of non-extradition. Italy pressured France to arrest Battisti, who was jailed for just one year. In 2004, France finally agreed to extradite Battisti, who went underground. He fled to Brazil, where he was arrested in 2007, but Brazil cancelled his deportation order in 2015.